Produktbild
Marina Warner

Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

Ways of Telling the Self

Ebook (EPUB Format)

Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of essays,given as the Clarendon Lectures in English 2001, takes four dominant processes of metamorphosis: Mutating, Hatching, Splitting, and Doubling, and explores their metaphorical power i… Mehr

CHF 45.80

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen
Versandkostenfrei

Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-103748-1
  • EAN: 9780191037481
  • Produktnummer: 16947778
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'422 KB

Über den Autor


Marina Warner is a prize-winning writer of fiction, criticism, and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of female myths and symbols.

82 weitere Werke von Marina Warner:


Bewertungen


0 von 0 Bewertungen

Geben Sie eine Bewertung ab!

Teilen Sie Ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Produkt mit anderen Kunden.